Anne of Green Gables
Reviewed By: Brooke Linda Keiler
Imagination so vast, words so big, Anne will guide you through all the troublesome
things she may face.
Imagine what it would be like to be an orphan. No one to comfort you at night, sing you
to sleep, answer your “I love yous”.This is what Anne felt. She was only a young girl, about ten
or eleven. When she got lonely she would look in the mirror and become friends with the person
she saw in it. She was truly, very, lonely. She didn’t think anyone would adopt and keep her too.
No one would truly care about her. One day, what felt like the hundredth time, she was adopted.
But what she hoped to be her mother and father, wanted a boy. A boy to help with the crops.
Anne didn’t know what to think. Who made this big of a mistake? More importantly, will they
keep her anyway, or send her back to the daunting orphanage?
In the house of Green Gables only a little way from the “Lake of Shining Waters” each
door you open, each page you turn, will tell a new story. This book is luring, engaging and
descriptive. It will make you turn page after page.
For example, this book is luring because Anne is always getting in trouble in some way
or another. In the book Marilla, {who might be Anne’s mother}, loses her brooch. Later that day
Marilla has discussion with Anne. She blames it on her with Anne’s hopes high for a special
pick-nick. The author describes that she’s in “the depths of despairs” when she hears the news.
What will happen? Will she be punished? Did she actually do it?
Furthermore, it’s an engaging story and each page will beg you to turn it. If you read this
book you will soon learn Anne has a knack for naming things. To start with, Anne called a path
“lovers lane, and a tree,” the snow queen”.
Additionally, as you may know, thoughtful authors always are descriptive. That’s why I
think it’s wonderful that she was descriptive. L.M Montgomery made the main character, Anne,
use big words. Such as, the words” departure”, “solemn”, or “qualms”.
This is an excellent book for people between the age of seven and up. I think this
because I read this book in 2nd grade as a miniature book club with my sister and mother. It
wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t hard either. I also recommend this book for people who enjoy
historical fiction. In closing, this book is also worthy for people who are or have been an orphan,
like Anne. This is so they will be able to understand better how Anne feels and Anne’s story will
help them persevere through hard times at their orphanage.
Each page you turn, will tell a unique, unexpected, new story. When you finish this book
you will find that you have a new perspective on life.